Do the off-site levels pose any threat to the health of wildlife or pets?
No, NASA has been monitoring the environment for over 30 years including the entire time the Reactor Facility was operating. In all that time, there was never anything found offsite that was above the levels allowed, or that would have posed a hazard to wildlife. Based on the initial results in Plum Brook, we collected, across the Station, tissue and bone samples from deer within Plum Brook Station the only wildlife that would have accumulated the isotopes. Specifically, a total of 23 liver samples (for cesium) and four bone samples (for strontium) were collected from deer during the annual Plum Brook hunts in fall 2005, and all results showed that the deer had not ingested any radiation. We shared these results with regulatory agencies and the public.
